Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte

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Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte (Rudolfswarte, Crown Prince Rudolph-Gloriette)
Image of the object
The Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte
Basic data
Place: Graz
State: Styria
Country: Austria
Altitude : 656  m above sea level A.
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 15 ° 22 ′ 29.4 ″  E
Use: Observation tower
Owner : Alpine Club Graz
Tower data
Construction data:
Total height : 11  m
Position map
Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte (Rudolfswarte, Crown Prince Rudolph-Gloriette) (Styria)
Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte (Rudolfswarte, Crown Prince Rudolph-Gloriette)
Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte (Rudolfswarte, Crown Prince Rudolph-Gloriette)
Localization of Styria in Austria

The Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte - briefly referred to as the Rudolfswarte - is a lookout tower in the south-western part of the Styrian capital Graz . It stands on the Buchkogel in the district of Straßgang .

Location and landscape

The city of Graz is bounded in the west by the north-south stretching Plabutsch-Buchkogel ridge . The Buchkogel is located in the southern part of this mountain range . It rises almost 300 meters above the next Graz district, Webling . 1.5 km west-southwest of the Rudolfswarte is Mantscha (municipality of Hitzendorf).

The Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte is located exactly on the Buchkogel summit. The view from the platform of the waiting room offers an overview of the Graz city area, especially of the southwestern part of the city with the districts of Eggenberg , Straßgang and Wetzelsdorf .

On the northern foothills, with the Buchkogelsattel less as a saddle than as a landmark of an old mountain trail that crosses the ridge, the Kirchberg St. Johann and Paul  ( 562  m above sea level ) and the Ölberg  ( 559  m above sea level ) lie above Krottendorf . ) at the Feliferhof shooting range . St. Martin Castle is located on the eastern spur . To the south, after the Mantscha saddle (Bildföhre, approx.  494  m ) lies the Bockkogel  ( 539  m ).

The Mariazellerweg (Austrian long-distance hiking trail 06) runs over the mountain with its churches . The Plabutsch tunnel runs under the mountain .

History and design

Wait from 1840
Wait from 1879

The original control room on the Buchkogel was built primarily from wood in 1840. It had an octagonal shape and was reminiscent of an eight-columned pavilion . The sponsor and maintainer was the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasius zu Admont . In 1874 the tower was destroyed by fire. A subsequent building should therefore be fire-proof .

In 1879 the (funded by various collection drives) waiting on was Styrian Mountain Club in honor of Crown Prince Rudolf , son of Emperor Franz Joseph I. , rebuilt. Based on the unpaid work of the plan's author Heinrich Merzenich, the stone construction (around 700 guilders ) was carried out by city master builder Johann Guido Wolf (1846-1922) and the iron construction (around 1200 guilders) by the Viktor Körösi company . The base of the 11 m high observation tower is made of rubble stones and has arches on three sides that allow access to the control room. An iron spiral staircase leads to the round viewing platform at the top of the observation tower .

The ceremonial opening and blessing took place on Sunday, October 12, 1879. Crown Prince Rudolf had agreed that the building should be named Crown Prince Rudolf-Gloriette . The control room became the property of the Admont Abbey, and a cartouche-enclosed document on the history and rebuilding of the observation tower was built into the foundation.

Since 1956, the Buchkogel has been part of the western mountain and hill country conservation area of ​​Graz .

In the 1970s the waiting room threatened to end because the landowners at the time, the Admont Abbey and the city of Graz, did not agree on who should pay for the renovation costs. The city of Graz then issued a notice of termination. In 1975, the Austrian Alpine Association under President Hans Schnell founded an interest group and was responsible for the maintenance of the control room by the Graz section of the Austrian Alpine Association, the FVV-Straßgang and the Graz Mountain and Nature Guard.

In 1995 the control room was improved again.

In March 2015, the control room was closed due to security deficiencies and was no longer accessible until further notice. From May 2016 the entrance to the waiting room was renewed, completed in April 2017 and reopened to the public. Apparently, the railing of the spiral staircase was raised by 10-15 cm by welding on another handrail.

literature

  • Renate Kniely: Lookout waiting around Graz . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz . Volume 38/39. City of Graz (Ed.), Graz 2009, ISSN  0440-9728 , pp. 425-429.
  • Andreas Brudnjak: The Rudolfs-Warte on the Buchkogel . In: Lookout guide . Volume 3: For Styria - the 100 most beautiful viewing points from Bad Aussee to Bad Radkersburg including 24 points in the volcanic region . Kral, Berndorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-99024-245-2 , pp. 13-16.

Web links

Commons : Kronprinz-Rudolf-Warte Graz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Graz Notes. Look into the country. In:  Grazer Volksblatt , No. 282/1878 (Volume XI), December 7, 1878, p. 3 (unpaginated), column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gre.
  2. Rudolfswarte . In: graz.at , accessed January 29, 2018.
  3. Styrian Mountain Association. In:  Grazer Volksblatt , No. 175/1879 (XII. Volume), August 1, 1879, p. 7 (unpaginated), column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gre.
  4. ^ The opening of the Crown Prince Rudolf-Gloriette on the Buchkogel. In:  Grazer Volksblatt , No. 237/1879 (XII. Volume), October 15, 1879, p. 5 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gre.
  5. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Rudolfswarte is 130 years old ). In: ÖVP Graz: Bezirkstrommler , No. 122/2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.grazervp.at
  6. ^ Siegfried Nagl , Rudolf Moser , GBG Gebäude- und Baumanagement Graz : GR.-Inquiry no. 728/2015. Renovation of the Graz observation tower . Graz City Council, Graz 2015. - Full text online (PDF; 2.5 MB) , accessed on January 29, 2018;
    Andrea Rieger: Rudolfswarte on Buchkogel closed . In: Kleine Zeitung , March 8, 2015, accessed on January 29, 2018.